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Obama administration seeks to change questioning law The Obama administration is urging the US Supreme Court to overturn a landmark decision that stops police from questioning suspects unless they have a lawyer present. The effort to sweep aside the 23-year-old Michigan vs Jackson ruling is one of several moves by the new government to have dismayed civil rights groups. President Barack Obama has already provoked controversy by backing the continued imprisonment without trial of enemy combatants in Afghanistan and by limiting the rights of prisoners to challenge evidence used to convict them. The Michigan vs Jackson ruling in 1986 established that, if a defendants have a lawyer or have asked for one to be present, police may not interview them until the lawyer is present. Any such questioning cannot be used in court even if the suspect agrees to waive his right to a lawyer because he would have made that decision without legal counsel, said the Supreme Court. The sixth amendment of the US constitution protects the right of criminal suspects to be “represented by counsel”, but the Obama regime argues that this merely means to “protect the adversary process” in a criminal trial. Critics argue that the 1986 decision is important to protect vulnerable defendants such as the mentally disabled, poor or juveniles who could be easily swayed by the police. |
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C’est aussi conforme avec le 5e amendement qui confère le droit de ne pas s’auto-incriminer. Ça permet au citoyen de « garder le silence » jusqu’à ce qu’il puisse bénificier de conseils légaux. Un reversement de ce jugement amènerait des conséquences graves pour la protection de personnes injustement accusées et amènerait les États-Unis un pas plus près de l’état policier et du totalitarisme.
On pourrait s’attendre à ce qu’un président républicain propose une telle chose, mais c’est plutôt étonnant venant d’un démocrate.
@Philippe: SURTOUT que Obama a étudié le droit constitutionel à Harvard et a même été professeur du droit constitutionel.
Obama Talks the talk, but doesn’t walk the walk. He is a dangerous deceiver.
While everyone is distracted by the swine flu and wondering if they’re on Janet Napolitano’s terrorist short-list (gun owners,christians,libertarians,anti-abortionists) Obama has decided you don’t really need an attorney while you are being questioned by police, and that your right to invoke doesn’t extend to this aspect of a potential criminal proceeding.
We still have the right to remain silent for a while,which will be hard under torture if Obama follow the principles of justice of his comrade Yugo Chavez.
@ LeRedneck
Pour un constitutionnaliste, Obama a peu de respect pour la constitition qu’il est supposé défendre. Espérons que la Cour Suprême va l’envoyer paître.